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Dec 14th to 17th I went to Belgium to participate the celebrations of the "Battle of the Bulge" in 1944.

You could see nice vehicles and dressed participants A by Germans knocked out Sherman at the market place Visited the Airborne Museum the first day

Next stop over was the Bastogne War Museum Lot´s of snow like back in 1944 German tank hunter "Hetzer"

Next day we went to see the fox holes of Easy company at Foy you may know from the show "Band of brothers": Close up to those of you who are familiar with the history/show of the Band of Brothers, note their names "Webb" and "Penkala" We walked the way they have walked To finde their foxholes that are still there even after 73 years where this happend:

Next was the US attack on Foy:
Their foxholes... ...with the view towards Foy houses Scene from the show BoB and real view

Next event was "Nut´s Day" at Bastogne Barracks
Bastogne Barracks and a living history "display" at the village of Hardigny:


where we ate 2007 MREs Speaking of, Belgium is a nice place to eat ...and having a hot cocoa at the Christmas Market in Bastogne next to the church where the first aid station was in the cellar that got hit:

Awesome post, great pictures. What cool places you visited. Cool you even ate mres! Thanks for sharing!

Man, those are some excellent pictures, Oilli. Thanks for sharing.

Looks like it was the same level of cold as it was in 1944.

Thanks for sharing housil! Didn't even knew there was a war museum in bastgone and 101 st airborne museum, must go there someday

Thank you for sharing such great pictures, Housil! Looks like a really fun day - you and your friend even got to enjoy an MRE.